Re: Faces on coins
Heck yeah. Didn't learn anything from Persian Fire I couldn't have read in Herodotus' stuff, just more popular packaging. Not to mention his tiring comparisons of ancient empires with the USA and a fight against "terrorist states".Originally Posted by QwertyMIDX
"The facts of history cannot be purely objective, since they become facts of history only in virtue of the significance attached to them by the historian." E.H. Carr
Re: Faces on coins
Yeah, his east v. west Huntington shit annoys me.
Anyway, it's not that numistics isn't really cool, it's that the coins I'm working with are mostly in terrible condtion and there's nothing you can say about them. I'll post some pictures of them at somepoint and you can see what I'm talking about. The one's that are in good shape are really cool, but I have to catalog all of them before I can do anything interesting with the ones that are in good enough shape to even guess where they're from. I don't have any info on where they were found either, they're just from a few dead white men's personal collections from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
History is for the future not the past. The dead don't read.
Operam et vitam do Europae Barbarorum.
History does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another. - Max Beerbohm
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I love the ancient coins. They look so cool.
Can you post some coins from the Ptolemies and Seleukids?
Ja mata, TosaInu. You will forever be remembered.
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Been to:
Swords Made of Letters - 1938. The war is looming in France - and Alexandre Reythier does not have much time left to protect his country. A novel set before the war.
A Painted Shield of Honour - 1313. Templar Knights in France are in grave danger. Can they be saved?
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I will if I find any, there is one coolish one with the Vergina star on it.
History is for the future not the past. The dead don't read.
Operam et vitam do Europae Barbarorum.
History does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another. - Max Beerbohm
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Yeah, we have a similarly uncatalogued collection at Duke. There're some really interesting coins--a good sized Bactrian one included--but many are little better than bits of slag. And the museum curators insist on putting up some roman coins for their exhibit, when they have several nicer ones from the East, and when the display is predominantly of Greek artifacts! Oh well.
"The mere statement of fact, though it may excite our interest, is of no benefit to us, but when the knowledge of the cause is added, then the study of history becomes fruitful." -Polybios
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I think i started an argument or atleast a general concensus apologies for grammer but i get enough of that in English!!
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